saying your next album is better than illmatic is either a whole lot of confidence or some ingenious pre-album hype. <P>but i hope you're right. i need some good shit to listen to so i can stop rocking illmatic every damn day.<P><P>"if you breathe the same air that i do, you know that you could go for months or even years without hearing the blessed sounds of a kick-snare or looped ayers xylophone and still have hiphop circulating relentlessly within you. it's almost intrinsic by now..."<P>